Strange fact about a dump: Same content but differents size and hashes

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MacGruber
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Strange fact about a dump: Same content but differents size and hashes

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Sometime ago, I dumped a PS2's game called "Scarface: The World Is Yours" and published here; yesterday I tryied to play it with my PS2 console and it doesn't work ok. I mean, I swapped the game a lot of times and even tryied on a different PS2 console, but the game gave me just a variant sequence of errors:

Mainly "load errors", I mean, sometimes it stopped in the first loading screen and didn't finish the loading; other times, the game was a little bit late but it loaded just fine and I could play it, but that time I only played some minutes because when a video sequence arised, it just frozen and I had to reset the console.

After many tries, it were always the same errors, so I decided to verify my disc against other images from the same game, so I downloaded all the images I found (from different uploaders of course); I had downloaded a total of 5 images and all have the same hashes and size, so I think my disc isn't failed because it haves the same size and hashes that all the other images I downloaded but it refuses to work at my PS2 console, so the only I can think is that I burned at a very high speed (16-18 x, high quality media), no more, no less Image .

But, here begin my real question

I downloaded another image and here are the strange fact:

It haves the very same content but it weights a little bit more and haves different hashes that all the others images I downloaded. Image

How could this be possible? Image

I compared their raw, hexadecimal content with HxD, and effectively it told me:

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Thanks in advance. Image

P.D. The game link is: https://redump.info/disc/8121/
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Re: Strange fact about a dump: Same content but differents size and hashes

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So your dumps are burned and not retail discs?
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Re: Strange fact about a dump: Same content but differents size and hashes

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lol, you know the ppl are uploading many modified shit on the inet in meaning they do it better that all the others by resizing the images (under- or over-size however)

16-18x is really much, i would not choose it, burn it 1-2x it is much enough
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Re: Strange fact about a dump: Same content but differents size and hashes

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Jackal wrote:So your dumps are burned and not retail discs?
Actually I own those games, but I tried this one on a friend's chipped PS2. I'm just wondering why didn't worked the burned game and what are that "extra" weight on one image. Image
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